Eaves-trough.



Na; 828,291. PATENTED AUG. 7, 1906.

D. LIJOHNSON. EAVES THOUGH.

APPLIGATIDN FILED OUT. 30. 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DENNIS L. JOHNSON, OF COOKS MILLS, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TODAVID F. HOOTS, OF MAT'IOON, ILLINOIS.

EAVES-TROUGH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. '7, 1906.

Application filed October 30, 1905. Serial No. 285.056.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, DENNIS L. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Oooks Mills, in the county of Ooles and State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eaves-Troughs, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to eavestro'ughs, and more particularly toscreens for preventing the collection of leaves and other trash therein;and it contemplates the provision of a simple, strong, and durablescreen and one adapted to be applied and connected to a roof and aneaves-trough with great facility and also adapted to tie the trough tothe roof with a view of strengthening the connection of the former tothe latter.

Other advantageous features peculiar to my invention will be fullyunderstood from the following description when the same is considered inconnection with the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification, in Which- I Figure 1 is a transverse section illustratingone arrangement of my improved screen relative to a roof and aneaves-trough. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the screen per se removed.Fig. 3 is an enlarged. transverse section taken in the plane indicatedby the line 3 3 of Fig. 2 looking in the direction indicated by arrow;and Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1, illustrating a different,arrange ment, hereinafter referred to, of my novel screen relative to aroof and an eavestrough. I

Referring by letter to said drawings, and more particularly to Figs. 1to 3 thereof, A is a portion of a side wall of a building. B is theshingle roof thereof, and C is an eavestrough. All of these parts may beand preferably are of the ordinary well-known construction, the trough Obeing secured to the facier or crown-molding or cornice of the buildinand arranged to receive water, &c., from t e shingle roof, which issharply pitched, as illustrated.

D is my novel screen as a whole. The said screen comprises an openframe, of comparatively large caliber galvanized steel wire, havingparallel side stretches a and also having end stretches b, longitudinalmesh-Wires c of small caliber and soft galvanized metal extendingbetween and connected to the end stretches b of the open frame D andarranged about the proportional distance illustrated apart, and crossmesh-wires (Z of similar metal extending between and connected to theside stretches a of the frame and interlaced with the longitudinal wiresc, as shown. Some of the cross-wires d, preferably those adjacent to theends of the open frame and certain of those arranged at intervals in thelength of the screen, are extended beyond one longitudinal side of thescreen-frame, as in dicated by E, for a purpose presently described.

In case the eaves-trough is secured to the facier or crown-molding orcornice of a house my novel screen is applied in the manner shown inFig. 1-that is to say, the screen is arranged with one longitudinal sideof its frame bearing on the shingle roof B and the other longitudinalside of said frame resting on the bead 6, usually provided at the outeredge of the eaves-trough. With the screen thus arranged the inner sideof the screenframe is connected by staples f to the roof B,

while the tongues E, afforded by the extension of the cross mesh-wiresbeyond one side of the screen-frame, are bent down and under the bead e,as shown in said Fig. 1. By virtue of this latter it will be obs JI'VGdthat the screen is expeditiously and securely fastened at its outer edgeto the outer ed e of the trough; also, that the outer edge of t e screenis he and this without liability of the screen being broken or its meshopened. From this it follows that there is no liability of openingsbeing formed between the screen and the trough through which trash canenter the trough, and it will also be observed that in addition toeffectually preventing trash from entering and settling in theeaves-trough the screen assists materially in the connection of theeaves-trough to the building.

In lieu of connecting one side of the screenframe to the shingle roofthrough the medium of staples, as shown in Fig. 1 and before described,the side of thescreen-frame may be secured under the lower shingles ofthe roof B, as shown in Fig. 4. When this arrangement is resorted to,the eaves-trough may be connected to the facier or crownmolding orcornice after the manner shown or else may be connected to the extendedportion of the shingle roof.

In practice I contemplate manufacturing my novel screens in sections ofvarious len ths and widths and with endsof different ang es to fitgutters of different makes and sizes.

It will be gathered from the foregoing that an important advantagepeculiar to my novel screen is that the said screen is adapted to beexpeditiously and securely applied without the necessity of cutting orotherwise weakening the screen, diminishing the wearing quali tiesthereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, 1s-

The combination with the roof of a building, and an eaves-trougharranged to receive from the roof and having a bead on its outer ed e ofa screen comprising an open frame, of ar e-caliber wire, having sidesand ends; one 0% said sides resting on the bead of the

